The Osceola times., 1887-08-20

| Bose nres are raging In parts Of Cana
da. Several Indians are reported to have
| burned TO death.
BULLETIN TO the Milwaukes Sentinel,
from Madison, at a. m, Of the 18th,
said the Mendoza Insane Asylum was
burning, and that the entire fire depart
ment had been summoned 10 the scene
No further particulars.
SHAFT No. 1 OF the Ashland mine, near
Hurley, Wis, caved in ON the 10th, killing
three men and injuring another so badly
that he Is not expected TO live. The names
Of the victims are Tim c. Dwyer, Steve
Never. John Toll and Louis Augustine.
Joseph Urban had both legs broken.
Dyer leaves wife and five children at
Hancock, Mich, but the others are single
men.
THE residence Of Henry Winsum at the
Crescent Coal works, Charleston, W. Va,
caught fire and was consumed on the ilth.
In the building were two children, aged
Ave and seven years respectively. The
younger jumped from the building and
was caught by its father, but the other was
burned TO death. When his remains were
found they were wrapped in lot OF bed
clothes. showing that the child got into
bed to save itself.
FIRE ut Brooklyn, Ia, destroyed Kings
low opera house. Loss, $4,000; no insur-
ance. Stober's harness-shop building and
contents: loss, 5000; insurance, $4,000. q.
Wins office; loss, $1,000; insurance, $500.
W. s. Sharp, implements: loss, Sl,Vo; in-
surance, $1,000. Roland's barber-shop;
loss, 5000; no insurance. William Craw-
ford was killed by falling building. War
rem Martin was run over by fire engine
and was fatally injured.
THE Grant Powder Works, located at
West Berkely, six miles from San Fran
cisco, across the bay, exploded on the llth.
The force of the explosion was such that
windows along the battery front in the
city were smashed, and buildings through
out the entire business portion Of the city
ouivered to an extent that it was believed
the city had sustained heavy earthquake
shock.
LEVI HoLwIG, a miner In New Mexico,
was crushed to death on the 18th by rock
falling on him.
The appeal Of Pranzni, the murderer of
Nine. Regnault, has been rejected by the
high court of France.
Sol CONVERSE was hanged at Hampton,
&. C., on the 12th, for the murder OF Jordan
Robinson. He said his sentence was just.
FRANK WILSON was hanged at Prescott.
Ariz., on the I2th, for the murder Of Sam
uel Clevenger and his wife, Charlotte, in
NAV, 1856, on the summit Of the Buskin
mountains, a few miles from the Utah
line.
julius BUCKS, a ten-year-old son OF John
Bucks, at Alma, Lafayette County, Mo-,
met with horrible death on the l2th by
being smothered to death in grain eleva-
tor in which he was playing.
JAMES KENDRIc, a laborer on the new
Capitol at Austin, Tex, was shot and seri-
ously wounded In the head, arm and leg
ON the l2th 10y his wife. She alleges that
he came into the house and attempted to
cut her throat with razor.
OSCAR J. HARVEY, the forger, has been
put to work in the Albany penitentiary
under John |. West the colored clerk in
the General Land Office, convicted of an
attempted criminal assault. West is boss
of the chair-maklng establishment in the
penitentiary.
A GANG Of men employed ON the North
western railway extension at Watersme ct,
Mich. on the 18th, sat down near newly
constructed water-tank TO rest after they
had filed the tank, and IL fell 10 pieces,
killing six men and badly injuring six
others.
RAYMOND MEYERS, living on the farm OF
his father-in-law, James Mills, southeast
of Des Moines. Ia, was gored to death by
bull on the 18th, the horn going entirely
through his body. He lived only twenty
minutes after receiving the injury.
FIRE at the Mendoza (Wis.) insane
hospital on the 18th, destroyed the larg,
frame barn belonging to the institution
100 tons Of hay, eleven head OF thorough
bred cattle, one fine Holsten bull, valued
at 81 1000, and nearly all the farm ma
chinery, wagons, sleighs. etc. The tota
loss is $4,000, with no insurance.
THE body of colored girl, horribly mutt
lated, was found in the woods near Frank
lin, La, on the 10th. Her stepfather, Dar
Haskins, was suspected, and ms he had fled
to the woods the citizens armed them
selves and finally captured him after Sc
verely wounding him. He confessed ant
asked TO be hanged. The citizens thought
his request reasonable and therefore
| granted it Immediately.
AN extensive and costly connagratior
was in progress in Pittsburgh, Pa, ON thu
/ morning OF tne lotn, III which property u
the value of over n million dollars was in
volved, including the Masonic Hall ant
buildings adjoining.
SEVENTEEN persons were poisoned a
Pittsburgh, Pa, ON the 18th, by eating Gus
tard into which some foreign substance
had found its way.
Now that the first excitement has wori
away it is found that the killed by the re
cent terrible accident on the Toledo, Peorii
4 Western road aggregate about eight,
and the wounded about one hundred, asid
from those whose injuries were not suii
ciently severe TO prevent them continuin,
their journey or returning to their home
at once. 1t was bad enough in all con
| scianes